[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium: January 21st at 4pm, Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania)
15 Jan
2026
15 Jan
'26
12:30 p.m.
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk:
Anna Papafragou<https://www.langcoglab.com/current-lab-members>rs>, Language and
Cognition Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Dynamic events in mind and language
Humans are surprisingly adept at interpreting what is happening around them and organizing
this information in terms of dynamic events. Furthermore, across human communities,
language is used to describe the events that we experience. But what, exactly, is an
event? In this talk, I propose a theory of eventhood that combines insights from
logico-philosophical analysis, cognitive psychology and linguistic theory. On this theory,
the representational units of events in cognition rely on abstract underlying structure,
including temporal boundaries. In that sense, events are similar to objects (since objects
also involve abstract structure, including spatial boundaries). This proposal predicts
systematic patterns in the way people spontaneously perceive unfolding events. It also
explains otherwise mysterious similarities in how events and objects behave as cognitive
entities. Finally, this proposal naturally accounts for the existence of a homology
between the cognitive and linguistic structure of events. This framework opens up exciting
possibilities for future research on how people represent, remember and talk about what
happens.
Date and time: Wednesday, 21st January 2026, 16:00
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99674461408?pwd=OUeclRFRsjmIJRKeMivXHse68syPdH.1
Meeting ID: 996 7446 1408
Passcode: 075444
Host: Eva Wittenberg
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get
access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Andi
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20 Jan
20 Jan
5:28 p.m.
New subject: [Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CANCELLED: Departmental Colloquium: January 21st at 4pm, Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania)
Dear all,
Unfortunately, Anna had to postpone her colloquium due to unforeseen circumstances. We
will keep you posted about a new date!
Best
Eva
Eva Wittenberg
http://lcl.ceu.edu
Department of Cognitive Science
Central European University
Quellenstr. 51
1100 Vienna
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Subject: [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium: January 21st at 4pm, Anna Papafragou
(University of Pennsylvania)
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk:
Anna Papafragou<https://www.langcoglab.com/current-lab-members>rs>, Language and
Cognition Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Dynamic events in mind and language
Humans are surprisingly adept at interpreting what is happening around them and organizing
this information in terms of dynamic events. Furthermore, across human communities,
language is used to describe the events that we experience. But what, exactly, is an
event? In this talk, I propose a theory of eventhood that combines insights from
logico-philosophical analysis, cognitive psychology and linguistic theory. On this theory,
the representational units of events in cognition rely on abstract underlying structure,
including temporal boundaries. In that sense, events are similar to objects (since objects
also involve abstract structure, including spatial boundaries). This proposal predicts
systematic patterns in the way people spontaneously perceive unfolding events. It also
explains otherwise mysterious similarities in how events and objects behave as cognitive
entities. Finally, this proposal naturally accounts for the existence of a homology
between the cognitive and linguistic structure of events. This framework opens up exciting
possibilities for future research on how people represent, remember and talk about what
happens.
Date and time: Wednesday, 21st January 2026, 16:00
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99674461408?pwd=OUeclRFRsjmIJRKeMivXHse68syPdH.1
Meeting ID: 996 7446 1408
Passcode: 075444
Host: Eva Wittenberg
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get
access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Andi
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31 Mar
31 Mar
11:32 a.m.
New subject: [Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium: April 8 at 4pm, Danielle Shore (University of Oxford)
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk:
Danielle M Shore<https://oxicptr.web.ox.ac.uk/people/danielle-shore>, The Oxford
Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research, Department of Experimental
Psychology
What’s in a face? Facial expressions and decision-making.
We spend our lives interacting with other people, and in these interactions faces provide
a wealth of both fixed (e.g., social group and age), and flexible information (e.g.,
facial expressions that indicate emotions and likely actions). The quality of an
interaction, and its outcome, depends on how the people interacting interpret each other’s
faces and expressions. In this talk I will present some of my resent work examining how
facial expressions are evaluated, what can change how people interpret other people’s
facial expressions, and consequently the decisions people make.
Date and time: Wednesday, 8th April 2026, 16:00
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94799070458?pwd=HzhabmyRJVOOAkNl2Q21nVQSVsnRT0.1
Meeting ID: 947 9907 0458
Passcode: 806200
Host: Thomas Ganzetti
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get
access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Andi
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7 Apr
7 Apr
8:20 a.m.
New subject: [Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Tomorrow: Departmental Colloquium: April 8 at 4pm, Danielle Shore (University of Oxford)
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk:
Danielle M Shore<https://oxicptr.web.ox.ac.uk/people/danielle-shore>, The Oxford
Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research, Department of Experimental
Psychology
What’s in a face? Facial expressions and decision-making.
We spend our lives interacting with other people, and in these interactions faces provide
a wealth of both fixed (e.g., social group and age), and flexible information (e.g.,
facial expressions that indicate emotions and likely actions). The quality of an
interaction, and its outcome, depends on how the people interacting interpret each other’s
faces and expressions. In this talk I will present some of my resent work examining how
facial expressions are evaluated, what can change how people interpret other people’s
facial expressions, and consequently the decisions people make.
Date and time: Wednesday, 8th April 2026, 16:00
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94799070458?pwd=HzhabmyRJVOOAkNl2Q21nVQSVsnRT0.1
Meeting ID: 947 9907 0458
Passcode: 806200
Host: Thomas Ganzetti
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get
access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Andi
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6 May
6 May
12:05 p.m.
New subject: [Koglist 1986] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium: May 13 at 1:30pm, Merle Fairhurst (TU Dresden)
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk:
Merle
Fairhurst<https://tu-dresden.de/ing/elektrotechnik/ias/aha/die-professur/Mitarbeiter/merle-fairhurst>,
Chair of Social Affective
Touch<https://tu-dresden.de/ing/elektrotechnik/ias/socialtouch>, Dresden University
of Technology
In this talk, I will present some of my recent studies investigating how we coordinate our
movements in time with groups of others as well as my projects on virtual touch. I will
propose that as a fundamentally social species, we are able to fulfill our need to feel
connected to others by either inferring colocation in space or some form of joint action.
Principally, my work investigates how we do this by using our senses to dynamically
exchange social information with others. The work presented will highlight how these
topics allow me to combine novel technologies. In the first half of the talk, I will show
examples by presenting preliminary data from two group coordination studies, one using
virtual reality and the other employing a Zoom-based version of the improvisational
theatre Mirror Game combined with Motion Energy Analysis. I will then move onto discussing
our recent and ongoing experiments that make use of both virtual reality and our mobile
application "HandsOn" to probe individual touch behaviours and preferences.
Date and time: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 13:30
!!PLEASE NOTE THE IRREGULAR STARTING TIME!! (Journal Club will start at 4:00pm in room
D-001 Tiered)
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/62475987093?pwd=6dQc9z4CivOUdPjKCFsTKEFn3gtESS.1
Meeting ID: 624 7598 7093
Passcode: 291703
Host: Luke McEllin
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get
access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Andi
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